When Fred Astaire's first wife died in 1954, I was working for Stanley Medeiros' Flowers in Beverly Hills.
The jury that found a woman guilty of inflicting abuse that killed her 3-year-old adopted son in 1965 ruled Friday that she was sane at the time, and she was sentenced to prison.
the 1966 movie "A Patch of Blue," leaped to her death Wednesday from a window in her fifth floor apartment in Pittsburgh, Pa.
A Superior Court jury voted the death penalty Friday for Steven Livaditis, a 23-year-old drifter
The city attorney's office has recommended payment of $775,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a 19-year-old Pacoima man who was accidentally shot and killed by a Los Angeles police officer six years ago.
I could not believe my ears at the Los Angeles City Council public hearing on redistricting to remove our deceased Councilman Howard Finn's district from the Valley and give it to Councilmen Woo and Ferraro.
killers of a nurse shot to death in her Van Nuys condominium, police said.
The state Supreme Court today unanimously reversed a conviction and death sentence in a Los Angeles
A 28-year-old gang member was charged Wednesday with the murder of a Watts-area woman who was killed by a stray bullet fired during a neighborhood feud which pierced the stained-glass window of a church.
In the superb new Soviet movie "Farewell" (at the Fox International through Thursday) we see a dying island through the eyes of the people who must leave it forever.
A Briton who kicked to death a Japanese man to protect a drunken woman on the street has received a
The son of Rudolf Hess, the imprisoned former deputy to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, says the 92-year-old is near death, a newspaper reported Sunday.
I remember when I was a youngster I saw the late Joe E.
Fifteen white supremacists were indicted today in Arkansas and Colorado allegedly for conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government and for murdering a Denver radio talk show host in 1984, the Justice Department announced.
A 39-year-old motorist was arrested after his car struck and killed a 75-year-old woman who was walking in the traffic lanes on Pacific Avenue, police said Sunday.
Sudanese rebel leader John Garang put a definitive end to reports of his death last week when he
At least 14 million children are dying each year from the "silent emergency" of infection and malnutrition, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday.
A divided California Supreme Court today overturned the death sentence and murder conviction of
A Superior Court jury in Santa Ana decided Wednesday that Teofilo Medina Jr., 43, should be executed for murdering three young men during a 1984 robbery spree.
A director of Spain's leading bank, Banco Central, was shot to death in the garage of his Madrid